Standing female figure ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Atié · ID: 3036515

Description

wood, blackish brown patina, string with white miniature glass beads, the neck carved with rings, burls as ornamental detail on body and coiffure, missing parts (left foot), rep. (left shoulder/arm), slight abrasion (nose), base;
the ethnic group of the Atié settling in the eastern part of the Ivory Coast’s Akan territory to the south of the Agni, sometimes already considered to be part of the Lagoon Peoples. Their figurative sculpture serves both, the veneration of the ancestors and the ceremonies of the “logbu” ritual.

Comparing literature

Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Encyclopedia of African Art and Culture, Munich 2009, p. 47